Stories on Stage presents What People Are My People? January 16, 2010

STORIES ON STAGE

What People Are My People?
DENVER, – Stories on Stage begins its 2010 season with What People Are My People? featuring Gwendoline Yeo performing her one-woman show Laughing with My Mouth Wide Open.

What People Are My People? will be performed on Saturday, January 16 in the Ricketson Theatre at the Denver Performing Arts Complex. Show times are 1:30 p.m.** and 8 p.m. Single tickets are $25, tickets for groups of 10 or more are $20 per person and LoDough (scholarship) tickets are also available. Tickets are available online at www.storiesonstage.org or by phone at 303-494-0523. (** Please note time change from 5 p.m.)

In our highly mobile and diverse society, claiming your personal cultural roots can be quite a struggle, especially if you have more than one cultural heritage.

Born in Singapore of traditional Chinese parents, and uprooted to San Francisco when she was on the cusp of adolescence, Gwendoline Yeo’s adolescent struggles to form a coherent identity were compounded by a huge cultural divide. Her one-woman radio show regarding her immigrant experience and where she accompanies herself on the Chinese Zither, aired on NPR’s “Politics of Culture” to rave reviews and led to the creation of Laughing with My Mouth Wide Open.

In Laughing with My Mouth Wide Open she tells her own story with tremendous humor, vivid intensity, and searing honesty that expresses all the excitement, anger, fear, and desire for love and acceptance that characterize every adolescent journey. For all of us who have struggled with our own adolescence or that of our children and for all of us who have struggled to reconcile the cultural divide between our heritage and the world in which we actually live, this is a must-see performance. Laughing with My Mouth Wide Open will be mounted in Los Angeles in 2010 and a synonymous TV pilot script is in the works.

A graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with a diploma in piano, Ms. Yeo received her bachelors from UCLA Phi Beta Kappa summa cum laude. She won the Miss Chinatown USA title in 1998, which led to commercials, hosting, and eventually a career in film and television. Ms. Yeo was honored with an Emmy nomination for Best Guest Star in a Drama for her performance as Xiao-Mei in the TV series Desperate Housewives. For more information and photos, go to www.gwendolineyeo.com.

Stories On Stage, an award winning performing arts organization features some of America's best actors from stage and screen today performing the words of many of the finest contemporary writers.

“What People Are My People” is sponsored in part by the Citizens of the Scientific and Cultural District (SCFD)

Stories on Stage presents What People Are My People? - Gwendoline Yeo performs her one-woman show, Laughing with My Mouth Wide Open. Saturday, January 16 - Ricketson Theatre at the Denver Performing Arts Complex, Speer and Arapahoe. 1:30 p.m.** and 8 p.m. Tickets $25 - Online at www.storiesonstage.org or by phone at 303-494-0523 - (** Please note time change from 5 p.m.)